It is not right to exult over slain men.
So ends the bloody business of the day.
Nimirum hie ego sum.
Here indeed I am; this is my position.
Postquam Discordia tetra
Belli ferrates postes portasque refregit.
When discord dreadful bursts her brazen bars,
And shatters locks to thunder forth her wars.
Horace—Satires. I. 4. 60. Quoted. Original not known, thought to be from Ennius.
Ye who made war that your ships
Should lay to at the beck of no nation,
Make war now on Murder, that slips
The leash of her hounds of damnation;
Ye who remembered the Alamo,
Remember the Maine!
Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord:
He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes
of wrath are stored:
He hath loosed the fateful lightning of his terrible swift sword:
His truth is marching on.
Julia Ward Howe—Batik Hymn of the Republic.
7
L'Angleterre prit l'aigle, et 1'Autriche l'aiglon.
The English took the eagle and Austrians
the eaglet.
Victor Hugo. Napoleon adopted the lectern
eagle for his imperial standard. His son was
the eaglet.
8
Earth was the meadow, he the mower strong.
Victor Hugo—La Légende des Siecles.
The sinews of war are those two metals (gold
and silver).
Arthur Hull to Robert Cecil, in a Memorial, Nov. 28, 1600. Same idea in Fuller's
Holy State. P. 125. (Ed. 1649)
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| text = <poem>We don't want to fight, but by jingo if we do,
We've got the ships, we've got the men, we've
got the money too.
We've fought the Bear before and while we're
Britons true,
The Russians shall not have Constantinople.
G. W. Hunt. (Called "the Kipling of the
Halls.
